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Submitted: 9/4/19 • Approved: 9/4/19 • Last Updated: 9/7/19 • R821598-G821597-S3
John
Apr 22, 1864
Dec 2, 1938
Son of John L. and Mary Ann Crawford
Leota
Nov 7, 1866
May 21, 1962
Daughter of Albert and Diana Poston Selby
J. L. CRAWFORD AGED 74, DIES AT LA PLATA
Resident of Adair County 72 Years; Funeral Sunday.
Special to the Daily Express.
---La Plata, Mo., Dec. 2 -John L. Crawford died at his home in La Plata this morning at 6:20 o'clock at the age of 74 years. He suffered a stroke of paralysis a week ago last Wednesday.
---Funeral services will be held in the Methodist Church in Gibbs at one o'clock Sunday afternoon. Burial will be made in the Gibbs cemetery.
---Mr. Crawford was the son of John L. and Mary Ann Crawford. He was born April 22, 1864, in Adair County on a farm west of Gibbs and had lived all his life in Adair County except the last two years when he moved to La Plata. He was married to Leota B. Shelby, August 23, 1883, in Kirksville. To this union eight children were born, four daughters and four sons. Two children preceded him in death, Lola B., who died in July 1903, and Hazel I. Thomas who died in March 1927.
---He is survived by his widow and the following children: Mrs. Eddie Burton, Bozeman, Mont. Mrs. C.M. Spencer, Chicago, and Glen, Ernest, Donald, and Junior Crawford, twenty-two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
---Mr. and Mrs. Crawford had been married fifty-five years. They celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1933.
---Mr. Crawford owned and farmed the old Crawford homestead west of Gibbs and was an extensive farmer and stock raiser. In early life he became a member of the Methodist Church. He was well known and well liked.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
May 24,1962
LEOTA CRAWFORD
---Mrs. Leota Bell Crawford, ninety-five years, six months and fourteen days of age, died at a Greentop Nursing Home Monday, May 21, at 8 p.m. She had been bedridden for some time.
---Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 24, a the Wilson Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Anderson the clergyman in charge. Interment was in the Union Cemetery at Gibbs.
---The daughter of Albert and Diana Poston Selby, she was born November 7, 1866 in Adair County and attended Gibbs schools.
---She was married on August 23, 1883 to John Leston Crawford who preceded her in death.
---Surviving are six children, Ethel Burton of Bozeman, Montana, Flossie Spencer of Chicago, Illinois, Glen, Ernest, Donald and John Crawford, all of La Plata, as well as twenty-four grandchildren, forty-four great-grandchildren and fifteen great-great-grandchildren. Two daughters also preceded her in death.
---She lived all her life in Adair and Macon Counties.
---Mrs. Crawford was a member of the La Plata Methodist Church.
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Contributed on 9/4/19
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